Update: Oil Reports On Fla. Shoreline

[The Straight Story]

Update: Oil Reports On Fla. Shoreline
Local 6 Meteorologist Eric Wilson Blogs About Orlando Weather




ORLANDO, Fla. -- Oil has been reported by Floridians up and down both coasts as of this morning. (See image)


From oil smells to smells of gasoline, it is hard to confirm each and every report; however you can get involved by reporting what you see or smell at a new site.

Many already have, and the list keeps growing. For the latest on where the oil is being reported, to where the oil is expected to be by Monday, check the latest conditions here at Eric Wilson's Oil Spill blog.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

http://www.clickorlando.com/weather/22408287/detail.html

http://ericwilson147.wordpress.com/category/2010-oil-spill/

[John Q. Citizen]

1. Want to buy an oily beach front paradise mess?

[raouldukelives]

2. Gee. I wonder if its from the DH gusher?

:sarcasm:

[Swamp Rat]

3. When it hits Virginia Beach, then they will truly give a fuck in DC.

:grr:

[dgibby]

13. Nope!

Not until it's in the Tidal Basin in DC.

Va. is one of the places Obama was to allow off-shore drilling. Between that, and letting the coal companies blow the tops off the Mountains in SW Va, it looks like he's determined to destroy us, and we voted FOR him. God only knows what he'd have done to us if we'd gone for McCain.:grr:

[Swamp Rat]

14. 'President McCain would have waterboarded you for being so critical

[dgibby]

16. Which is one of the reasons I didn't vote for him,

among many, many others.

[Swamp Rat]

17. Me too, so I guess we can sleep well at night...

maybe?

[HooptieWagon]

4. The fla peninsula sites are "unaffected area" or "oil smell"

not oil being present.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. I wonder what this will do for the 2012 republican convention in Tampa.

[HooptieWagon]

7. It could be quite a PR nightmare for them. n/t

[B Calm]

10. I wonder if they'll be chanting "Drill Baby Drill"

[time_has_come]

6. Unrecced. I didn't like that wikipedia-like interactive map when I saw it this morning...and now

it's spreading misinformation.

The red includes "all catagories," which includes unaffected areas.

And now this radio station is taking that image and reporting it as " Oil has been reported by Floridians up and down both coasts as of this morning. (See image)"

Things are bad enough without false information portraying them as worse.

[HooptieWagon]

8. Yes, unless you look close its easy to be misled. n/t

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[time_has_come]

11. I wish I had more than one unrec. THIS NEWS IS INCORRECT...

...see post 6.

The map includes unaffected areas, so the claim that oil has been reported on land up and down the Florida coast is wrong.

And the interactive map it's based on includes unverified reports given online.

In short, it's not "official" and, as seen in this radio station news piece, it's misleading.

[csziggy]

12. That map is deceptive - it shows all reports including negative ones

For the break down in what the reports are go to http://oilspill.skytruth.org/main

There they break it down into ll Categories:
Oil in the Water
Oil on Land
Wildlife
Unaffected Area
Trash / Debris - unoiled
Trash / Debris - oiled
Air Quality

ALL the unaffected areas are shown on the map you have, as well as affected area. When I first found the oilspill site above, I was confused by it - that is why I immediately recognized what it was.

[roamer65]

15. It's in the "Loop Current" now.

The reports should begin to multiply very soon.

[Owl]

18. BP will rely on enormous TONS of toxic dispersants to try and hide/submerge the majority of the oil.

The worse is probably yet to come.